Veeam Backup & Replication Software is a data center backup solution, providing recovery and protection of data.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/J3/G5/9IIFITSZDUKS.pngVeeam SoftwareVeeam Backup and Replication for Your Most Critical Systems2018-12-19T00:06:19.184ZVeeam Backup and Replication Enterprise is being used as the backup provider for virtual and physical environments. At the time of the POC and purchase, a failing competitor product was being used in the environment that could not be utilized due to lack of consistency. VEEAM came in and educated our team and proved to us the ROI. Today they continue to provide value and increase value by extending their footprint by expanding into new capabilities.,Virtual Server Backup and Replication/Copy: Veeam is a leader in the virtual server backup environments for the past 7-10 years. With an agent-less configuration and multiple options to reduce the impact on your production environment, VEEAM is the clear choice for protecting your data.
VEEAM offers multiple options to manage replicas of your most critical data, with failover, fail back, commit, and failover plans. This adds a great value on HyperV Farms where replication management lacks visibility into the current state and operation. You can see what is going on as the replication occurs.
VEEAM extended their product into AIX, Oracle, Physical, and Office365 Environments (As well as other improvements). This is a quality you want to discover when picking a vendor to backup your expanding infrastructure.
Sure Backup offers the ability to boot the VMs up off the backup file in a Sandbox for user testing and validation. Veeam also offers the "Instant VM Recovery", which allows you to quickly restore a backup by mounting the backup file to the host and then once its up and operating storage migrate the VM data to production local or SAN/NAS storage.,VEEAM has few shortcomings but if I were to select one, I would say tighter integration with their Veeam Sure Backup Options. Simplification on the setup of the networking for the sandbox and better validation for core apps such as AD, SQL, IIS, Oracle, Exchange.,10,Veeam had a positive ROI for the organization. Within 30 days of going live with the VEEAM Backup and Replication solution, our primary data center experienced a city-wide disaster event. The sub-level of the city's subterranean infrastructure experienced a gas leak which was ignited via a power company related transformer spark. Using the Veeam Solution we were able to quickly restore our core infrastructure and then subsequent systems (within about 60 minutes for 200+ Windows Servers).,Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Relational Database Service, Azure SQL DatabaseMichael JippingFaster Virtual Machine Backups and Restores2018-12-14T16:54:59.318ZWe are using Veeam Backup and Replication to support around 200 Virtual Machines and 4 Physical Servers running Linux OS. We are using it to take daily incremental backups of both Linux Virtual Machines and Windows Virtual Machine. Also, although I am not a big fan of Veeam Backup Agent for Linux on a physical host, it's doing a satisfying job in a very cost-effective manner. We are using Veeam for image-based replication for some of our virtual machines as required by our business. We use it for fast full restores or a file level restore as required case to case. It has been a very easy to configure and easier to manage solution. The tool is easily being supported by our system admins and we did not need to hire additional backup and recovery experts to manage the solution.,It is an amazing solution best suited for vSphere and Hyper-V virtual machines backup and replication needs.
Image-based virtual machine replication is very fast and easy to configure.
The incremental backups are quite nice and lead to smaller storage footprints for your backup copies.,I have had a hard time supporting Veeam Agent on Linux on my physical linux database servers. The job gets stuck due to several reasons like network glitch etc but what's more annoying is that killing the job sends Veeam service into zombie mode. The only solution we have is to restart the server. We have tried working with Veeam support on it, but have not received any better solution for this problem.
Veeam Agent on Linux does not support Oracle ASM volumes, so a backup that includes ASM volumes will not be incremental and run long based on your ASM volume size.
Veeam Support support is not a great team and they need to work on their customer satisfaction.,9,Cost Savings. It has been a cost-optimal backup and replication solution for our overall environment.
Faster Recovery. We have been happy with the amazing fast recovery time for our virtual machines. We haven't really tested the recovery on physical hosts yet.
Disaster Recovery. We are using Veeam cost-optimal and Recovery as part of our DR solution in case Site Recovery Manager doesn't work.,CommVault,Azure Active Directory, Oracle Identity Manager, HP StoreOnce, HP 3PAR StoreServ Flash Storage, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle WebLogic Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control,No,Price
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Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor,I don't want to change much but I would have considered comparing backups of physical hosts while deciding on what product to purchase.,Image-based replication for virtual machines
File level restores
Machine level restores
Virtual Machine Cluster level backups,Backup of Physical Servers
Point in Time restores on physical servers
backup of Oracle ASM volumes,9Ravinder GuptaVeeam 60% of the time is works every time. Honestly it's 100%.2018-12-14T15:42:50.359ZVeeam Backup and Replication is our go to solution for both virtual and physical systems that are Windows 7 and newer. Veeam provides backup and offsite replication of backups within a majority of our clients manufacturing infrastructure.,Veeam is easy to install and manage. However, I recommend getting support personnel Veeam technical training to ensure they are able to deploy to complex environments and tune the software for optimal performance while not impacting production systems.
Veeam is dependable in that it provides consistent and reliable backups which are easy to restore. This applies to backup and restore of both physical systems to similar/dissimilar hardware and virtual systems (VMware).
Veeam replication features allow for faster recovery of systems which consume a large amount of disk space. Keep in mind disk and network are most often your bottlenecks so you must design accordingly to obtain your target RTO.,This applies primarily to the manufacturing realm for legacy operating systems are still prevalent. Veeam will only backup physical systems Windows 7, or Server 2008 and newer. In my field we often encounter Windows XP and 2003 systems.,10,As an Veeam MSP we are able to offer our customers a top quality solution at an affordable price. This is when comparing to similar products such as Acronis, vRanger and Unitrends.,Jon LiedtkeVeeam B&R Review2018-12-17T19:40:17.033ZAt my previous job, we used Veeam to backup our virtual infrastructure. We backed up our VMware environment to Exagrid appliances. At my current job, we are currently evaluating Veeam to replace Networker.,Veeam is able to backup only the data that's changed since the last backup.
Veeam is able to mount Active Directory and Exchange EDB files, directly from the Veeam repository, and restore individual itemS
Veeam is able to take synthetic full backups by incorporating incremental backups taken after the previous full.,One issue we had was that VMware CBD needs to be enabled for it to only backup the change blocks. This requires a change to the vmx file for each. VM.
In order to get the best compression and dedupe ratios, we had to build our backup jobs by OS.
We needed to deploy multiple proxy servers to handle our environment.,10,Veeam was able to take over the backups from our previous product with no problem and provide us with features we didn't have before!
It was very easy to setup backup jobs and keep our environment
We are able to use Veeam to migrate VMs from one environment to another with ease and less downtime than using other tools.,Veritas NetBackup and NetworkerBen LiebowitzVeeam Backs Up All For You2018-10-08T20:19:08.175ZSince my office started to implement virtual machines 5 years ago, we switched to using Veeam as our primary backup tool. Also because our Los Angeles office is the only one with virtual machines, we're the only office out of 3 that are using Veeam. With the past 3 months, I started to familiarize myself with the use of Veeam taking over this task from our computer consultants. Veeam is a powerful tool providing us with the ability to backup virtual &amp; physical machines with multiple scheduled tasks along with automated reports on the status of each backup job performed.,Excellent collaboration with VmWare to backup virtual machines created using VmWare
Provides a scheduling tool to perform timed backup tasks
sends out email notifications to specified email addresses of backup success or failures when jobs are completed,Veeam seems to force the multiple functions provided into a single application window without an option to open the various modules as separate windows. Since these modules are sometimes related, it would be better to be able to see the modules opened in separate windows to modify side by side.
Since Veeam is closely tied in to VmWare when virtual machine backup jobs are created, any changes to information like credentials on VmWare could impact Veeam backup jobs connected with the VmWare virtual machines. Currently there isn't an option to automatically port the changes made on VmWare over to Veeam. You'll have to re-enter those changed credentials.,9,We had a situation where data on one of our virtual machines crashed. We were glad that we had a Veeam backup of that data and information was restored rather quickly within hours instead of days due to the convenience of using Veeam.
Since Veeam provides immediate email feedback after a backup job has ran, right away I knew if the job succeeded or failed. When a job does fail, which there were times when this happened, I can make the adjustments necessary and immediately instruct Veeam to start the backup job over again.,Paul Li

Veeam Backup and Replication Enterprise is being used as the backup provider for virtual and physical environments. At the time of the POC and purchase, a failing competitor product was being used in the environment that could not be utilized due to lack of consistency. VEEAM came in and educated our team and proved to us the ROI. Today they continue to provide value and increase value by extending their footprint by expanding into new capabilities.

Virtual Server Backup and Replication/Copy: Veeam is a leader in the virtual server backup environments for the past 7-10 years. With an agent-less configuration and multiple options to reduce the impact on your production environment, VEEAM is the clear choice for protecting your data.

VEEAM offers multiple options to manage replicas of your most critical data, with failover, fail back, commit, and failover plans. This adds a great value on HyperV Farms where replication management lacks visibility into the current state and operation. You can see what is going on as the replication occurs.

VEEAM extended their product into AIX, Oracle, Physical, and Office365 Environments (As well as other improvements). This is a quality you want to discover when picking a vendor to backup your expanding infrastructure.

Sure Backup offers the ability to boot the VMs up off the backup file in a Sandbox for user testing and validation. Veeam also offers the "Instant VM Recovery", which allows you to quickly restore a backup by mounting the backup file to the host and then once its up and operating storage migrate the VM data to production local or SAN/NAS storage.

VEEAM has few shortcomings but if I were to select one, I would say tighter integration with their Veeam Sure Backup Options. Simplification on the setup of the networking for the sandbox and better validation for core apps such as AD, SQL, IIS, Oracle, Exchange.

Veeam Backup is a great addition to most environments. I would be hesitant in an environment where Veeam doesn't officially support a specific product class or OS level. You want to make sure if there is an issue that the Veeam Support is able to assist you.

We are using Veeam Backup and Replication to support around 200 Virtual Machines and 4 Physical Servers running Linux OS. We are using it to take daily incremental backups of both Linux Virtual Machines and Windows Virtual Machine. Also, although I am not a big fan of Veeam Backup Agent for Linux on a physical host, it's doing a satisfying job in a very cost-effective manner. We are using Veeam for image-based replication for some of our virtual machines as required by our business. We use it for fast full restores or a file level restore as required case to case. It has been a very easy to configure and easier to manage solution. The tool is easily being supported by our system admins and we did not need to hire additional backup and recovery experts to manage the solution.

I have had a hard time supporting Veeam Agent on Linux on my physical linux database servers. The job gets stuck due to several reasons like network glitch etc but what's more annoying is that killing the job sends Veeam service into zombie mode. The only solution we have is to restart the server. We have tried working with Veeam support on it, but have not received any better solution for this problem.

Veeam Agent on Linux does not support Oracle ASM volumes, so a backup that includes ASM volumes will not be incremental and run long based on your ASM volume size.

Veeam Support support is not a great team and they need to work on their customer satisfaction.

It is very well suited for a VMWare virtual environment. It's easy to configure and easier to the manager. You can configure Veeam Backup & Replication for both full and incremental backups. It is very reliable and doesn't break in the middle of the night. The storage footprint is also quite small and you can configure a backup retention policy to keep good control of it. It is definitely not a great solution if you want to back up your physical server. But if you want to save on the additional cost of buying a separate solution for that, just like we are doing, you can use it to a satisfying level. But do not expect a point in time recovery for physical hosts.

Veeam Backup and Replication is our go to solution for both virtual and physical systems that are Windows 7 and newer. Veeam provides backup and offsite replication of backups within a majority of our clients manufacturing infrastructure.

Veeam is easy to install and manage. However, I recommend getting support personnel Veeam technical training to ensure they are able to deploy to complex environments and tune the software for optimal performance while not impacting production systems.

Veeam is dependable in that it provides consistent and reliable backups which are easy to restore. This applies to backup and restore of both physical systems to similar/dissimilar hardware and virtual systems (VMware).

Veeam replication features allow for faster recovery of systems which consume a large amount of disk space. Keep in mind disk and network are most often your bottlenecks so you must design accordingly to obtain your target RTO.

This applies primarily to the manufacturing realm for legacy operating systems are still prevalent. Veeam will only backup physical systems Windows 7, or Server 2008 and newer. In my field we often encounter Windows XP and 2003 systems.

At my previous job, we used Veeam to backup our virtual infrastructure. We backed up our VMware environment to Exagrid appliances. At my current job, we are currently evaluating Veeam to replace Networker.

Since my office started to implement virtual machines 5 years ago, we switched to using Veeam as our primary backup tool. Also because our Los Angeles office is the only one with virtual machines, we're the only office out of 3 that are using Veeam. With the past 3 months, I started to familiarize myself with the use of Veeam taking over this task from our computer consultants. Veeam is a powerful tool providing us with the ability to backup virtual & physical machines with multiple scheduled tasks along with automated reports on the status of each backup job performed.

Veeam seems to force the multiple functions provided into a single application window without an option to open the various modules as separate windows. Since these modules are sometimes related, it would be better to be able to see the modules opened in separate windows to modify side by side.

Since Veeam is closely tied in to VmWare when virtual machine backup jobs are created, any changes to information like credentials on VmWare could impact Veeam backup jobs connected with the VmWare virtual machines. Currently there isn't an option to automatically port the changes made on VmWare over to Veeam. You'll have to re-enter those changed credentials.

Veeam is well suited for scenarios when backing up of virtual machines are required. If you are only using tapes for backups, though Veeam supports this process, it's best to use pure tape backup software to handle this instead of investing in Veeam with so much more bells & whistles.

Veeam Backup & Replication is being used at all of our departments/sites that have VMware deployed. I believe that Veeam Backup & Replication is the best solution available for the backup and recovery of vSphere and Horizon View environments. Veeam Backup and Replication is easy to use, performs flawlessly, and support is excellent. The interface is intuitive to use. I have not needed to use support too many times with this product because of the ease of use and how well the product performs. Response from support is fast and questions are answered quickly. They do their best to assist you whenever it is needed. The ability to get real-time alerts makes monitoring easy and allows me to respond to issues outside of the normal business day and try to resolve them before the employees arrive for the business day. Recovery of entire VM's is easy and fast. The granular recovery using Veeam Explorer is one of the best features. I can recover specific deleted user files, corrupted files, and even user exchange mailboxes or mail messages. More recently we have added the use of the agent to backup physical Windows servers. This agent has been a great addition to us and now we also back up our physical servers with Veeam. Having one product for backup is really great. Veeam pairs well with the use of a deduplicating backup device like EMC Data Domains.

Backup and recovery of entire VMware VM's and granular recovery of files using Veeam Explorer make this an ideal product. Backup of physical Windows servers using the agent allows the use of a single product for backup.

Software installation and setup I found was relatively easy as was setting up backups. I find the interface is intuitive and easy to use once you are familiar with it.

Email alerts are important and allow you to verify backup status without having to remote in to check on things. When an issue is reported, it allows me to respond to resolve the issues before the production day starts. Usually, the alert points out an issue that is VMware related and not a Veeam issue.

Once Veeam is setup and configured properly, it requires little intervention. Pretty much a set it and forget it solution. Highly reliable.

Veeam is an important part of our DR recovery strategy. We can spin up entire VM's at our backup site whenever needed very easily and quickly to resume critical business operations.

Veeam works well for backing up encrypted volumes on Windows servers using the backup agent.

Pricing of this product and ongoing support is a little expensive but well worth the cost. It is reliable and solid, which is very important with backup and recovery. You cannot afford a product of this type to fail. You do get what you pay for!

Once in a great while, backup snapshots are not removed. It would be nice if Veeam could alert you that snapshots exist, whether they were created by Veeam backup or in vSphere. This would prompt you to go into vSphere and remove/resolve the snapshot issue and free up storage resources.

Veeam Availability Suite is well suited for virtual environments. We specifically use it in our vMware environments for VSphere and Horizon View. If you also have some existing physical servers, you'll appreciate using the agent so that you can use one product to backup everything. If your environment is made up of only physical servers I would recommend using another product.

Veeam Backup & Replication is used at the business unit level, the portion packaging division within the organization. 4 BU locations utilize the same Veeam backup solution, backing up of the VM servers to local disk, to physical external drives, and also to remote repositories at 2 locations across the WAN. At 2 BU locations, Veeam also backup to Tape. Essential, multiple redundancies are in place.

Product used on Dell hardware environment, including Virtual Machines and Data Domain storage. Veeam works in an organization with multiple sites, capable of WAN backup. Local site tape backup also works great. I would recommend keeping Veeam Backup & Replication software on separate hardware, as not to utilize the same hardware memory and disk resources as VMs running on hosts against SAN. Also, highly recommend setting up the Veeam helper server (to run Veeam services), at a location of where Data Repository located. When running WAN backup, the time of the backup can be reduced because the helper server handles merging processes locally, as opposed to having these processes run long distance over the WAN, thus increasing the backup time, and putting a strain on the traffic between sites.

We use Veeam to backup our VMWare servers to our local backup repository. I also use Veeam to backup our most critical workstations daily so we could quickly recover them in case of any issues. Veeam is very easy to use and reliable and makes managing my backup tasks very easy.

I think Veeam Backup and Replication works great for any VMWare system and is very easy to use. I have not used it with HyperV, but I am sure it works just as well for those systems also. It's a great product and easy to use. I recommend it to anyone that needs a backup solution.

Veeam Backup and Replication has allowed our customers to finally get off of legacy backup solutions, such as tape backup, and use a reliable backup solution across their entire network environment. Veeam delivers backup, recovery and replication for everything, including virtualized as well as physical and cloud-based resources.

Our customers have moved from various legacy and other types of backups to Veeam. It allows for fast and efficient backups, allowing for peace of mind. Whether our customers have a one-man IT staff or a full staff, Veeam's ease of use allows backups to run efficiently and lets us all go home and be able to sleep at night knowing their data is safely backed up up both onsite and remotely.

We use it in-house to back up and replicate VMS for our virtual and cloud workloads.We back up and at times recover application data and log information, and we like the reliability and speed Veeam provides. It's able to pull from a no-SQL database that is tied to automation processes and predictive, preemptive actions that we've custom developed.

Veeam is usually able to provide faster time to resolution and recovery than other providers. If I remember correctly, when we were selecting them, the fact that they outperformed in this category was a big deal. It's pretty cool how they are able to monitor your environment, as well. It's making IT managers' lives easier.

We use Veeam Backup and Recovery to backup all of our virtual machines as well as all of our physical Windows machines. We have a Data Domain as our backup target and then we send those backups out to a monthly tape.

Perfect for any size vmware environment. As long as you have a large enough target the software will do all of the heavy lifting with ease. You can even backup physical machines to cloud based targets with the agent.

We are a reseller and a couple of our clients use it. We backup all servers and replicate them to another device at the same physical location. Anytime we have ever needed to restore an individual file or entire system, we have always been successful. It's a great solution for backups and BDR, even though we only replicate within the same physical locations. I believe Veeam only works for VMware though, not Hyper-V (unless that has changed) so it will not work for all organizations.

Clients that are smaller but using VMWARE, in my eyes, would be the ideal client. If you have a lot of servers and not a lot of bandwidth, this would likely not be a good solution to use. Multi-site clients that could replicate between sites would also be a good fit.

At our second site, Engineers needed to back up a set of test VMs. I did not have backup infrastructure at the site. Veeam was perfect. I was able to quickly backup all the VMs, but I can also restore to previous points in time, and I only needed storage space and a local express database on a server.

Their 3 server express pack was perfect for my small site needing backup. It had a great price and I could back up all my hosts. The full enterprise license would work well company wide if I were given a bigger budget for the program, but we had existing tools that are functional. Veeam is great at VMWare virtual machine discovery, and it can be set to automatically backup everything is finds.

We use it for all of our servers, as well as a DR tool. Every department is using it (although they do not know this) and we routinely restore mistakenly deleted files. We have defeated ransomware with the ability to simply roll the users MyDocs back to the previous day. I was recently trained at the VMCE sessions at VEEAMON2017 in NOLA, and learned even more about this most powerful and easy to use tool.

Veeam Backup & Replication is our preferred tool for backing up virtual machines. It provides efficient, reliable, and cost effective backups of virtual machines without being overly complicated. I can teach a new admin how to use it effectively within 30 minutes. You can't really say that for most other backup software. We use it company-wide, as it simply offers an excellent mix of efficacy and cost effectiveness.

Free version has limited functionality - The free version of Veeam Backup & Replication offers only very basic backups, and doesn't work well with free versions of VMware ESXi as a result.

Cost goes up with lots of cores - While generally quite affordable on the lowend, Veeam can get costly if you're backing up a large number of ESX hosts with a large number of CPU's and cores, especially with the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus versions.

Can require a dedicated admin in larger environments - Veeam is very hands-off for many installs, but some Enterprises with a large number of VM's and ESX hosts may require a dedicated admin to manage Veeam.

Veeam is awesome for small and medium businesses especially. It's not expensive to use for a small number of hosts, especially for the standard version of the product. It provides easy but robust backups without a great deal of time invested. For larger enterprises, especially those with many hosts and/or hosts with lots of CPU sockets, they may want to find a product that licenses differently.

Veeam is the best backup solution I have used to date! Simple to install, configure and manage. When it does have an error, 90% of the error messages are in simple English as to what has caused the fault. Would definitely recommend to others!

For the most part, it works and is relatively straight-forward to configure. Their support is good, although I tire of hearing the blames on Microsoft VSS. If you're going to code and sell software based off a different vendor's framework, be prepared to offer support for both yours and the framework vendor's products! That said though, I really do like this software.

Definitely [well suited] in a virtual environment. Veeam is very easy to set up and offers a tremendous amount of flexibility when it comes to backup media. The ability to fire up a VM right from the backup media is also very handy! Veeam is also able to make use of the built-in Windows Server 2012 R2 de-duplication when storing on DASD. This saves an incredible amount of space and allows for longer retention periods.

We are using Veeam Backup & Replication to backup our virtual server environment. It is used by the IT department to complete this task. It helps us maintain a backup repository of all of our virtual servers. It addresses the main issue of file restoration and disaster recovery if necessary.

Veeam works well in a VMware environment running Windows servers. It integrates well with Windows virtual machines and does not require any special agent installations like many other backup applications do. It's well-suited for companies of all sizes that are looking for an effective way to backup their server environment.

Veeam Backup & Replication has been a wonderful asset to our IT Department. It has given us the comfort of knowing our data is safe, and an easier way to test and validate it. We use it across the entire organization to backup our virtual infrastructure. In the time we have used the product, it has been very valuable and allowed quick restoration of accidental user mistakes, as well as building sandboxes to test upgrades and patches. I really can't say enough good things, and am very happy with the transition from our previous backup solution.

Configuration and setup is very straightforward. The product for the power it has is very simple to operate. Not a lot of complex jargon or windows to confuse the administrator.

Validating that your data is accessible and readable. You can easily fire up your virtual servers you have backed up, or quickly load a file system to view files. It gives you great assurance that when you need your data it will be available and ready.

Exchange Restoration. Email is so critical to our users. From time to time they delete, or lose messages of critical importance. Being able to load the information store in Veeam and extract messages or restore them directly to the mailbox is worth its weight in gold for our team.

To my understanding it requires a virtual environment. So anyone who relies on physical servers will not be able to take advantage of the greatness of Veeam. It is also important that anyone using it in a VMware environment is not using the free hypervisor. It requires an additional API to perform backups which is not included

Veeam has been and is currently being used as a centralized backup solution within an ESX/ESXi environment containing over 130 ESX hosts along with multiple vCenters including over 6000 vms. This has been a very useful tool for this establishment and has fulfilled our needs for a solid backup solution.

We use Veeam for our organization in our two server farms. We also resell Veeam to our clients which are very satisfied for this VM Backup and Replication. I give us the security that all our VMs are backed up or replicated in the right way

It's suited for long and short time backups, the restore procedure of a backup is not very instantaneous but very simple. You can easily replica your VM to second location, in order to have an instant recovery of your VMs

We use Veeam Backup & Replication to perform nightly on-site backups, cross site replication, and even in one instance in a small ROBO we use it to back up to tape for offsite. Veeam covers all of our virtualized infrastructure and even some of our physical infrastructure throughout our entire organization. The main problems Veeam solves are our need for failover and data recovery DR protection, our need for quick and easy backups, and our need for fast, accurate, and user friendly file-level recovery. It provides us with the RTO and RPO we need and doesn't break the bank or take a PhD to configure and get running.

Veer Backup & Replication has saved my bacon on multiple occasions. Anytime I do an upgrade to software or OS on critical applications or servers I run a Veeam backup first and have the knowledge that I will always have a solid way back in the case that something goes terribly wrong. Once we had a large file server that had been built poorly, multiple small VMDKs that were joined in Windows as Dynamic Disk. We lost one of the virtual disks due to a VMware file issue and it tanked the entire dynamic drive. Traditionally I would have had to recover the entire server from tape or from a very slow disk recovery. With Veeam I had that huge server back up and running in under an hour! Veeam made me an IT hero that day to my peers and it can do the same for you.

We are 95% virtualized. Veeam Backup & Replication is our lifeline when it comes to backing up important systems, replicating those systems to our data recovery site and even spinning up ad hock labs to explore and test in.

Microsoft DAG awareness would improve the functionality of exchange backups. When a snapshot is taken of an active database the DAG will likely fail over the databases to another server unless the tolerance is adjusted. If Veeam could note which servers host what database and then migrate them back at a scheduled time, that would be awesome.

Dependency on the snapshot process is a bit of a hindrance. Tapping into the hyperviser level and monitoring the changed blacks as they happen may be more to direct on the storage side but it may also give faster recovery points as well as have less impact on SQL and Exchange type applications.

We internally use Veeam to backup our internal servers, and we design and deploy it for our customers. It is a comprehensive backup solution that allows granular recovery of files and application data for VMs, as well as replication. It solves problems for data protection and disaster recovery. It is easy to use and maintain.

Backup and replication of virtual machines on VMware and Hyper-V. Granular file and application data recovery. Works well in environments where intuitiveness, ease of management and maintenance, and reliability are critical.

We used Veeam ONE to backup our Hyper-V servers on a daily basis and to recover lost files. It was much better than our previous solution because of how it handled change data on the virtual servers. It made recovery go from 2 to 5 hours recovering from tape with the old solution, to 10 to 15 minutes with Veeam ONE. I highly urge companies using Hyper-V to use this to backup up their infrastructure.

Any network using Hyper-V to host their file servers or email servers would benefit from this product due to it being easy to implement and maintain, as well as having fast backup and recovery times. When you need to keep mission critical systems online this is a great tool to ensure data stability and data retention.